“Does Prime die…?”

I’ve wanted to do this for a while; take a fresh look at classic nerd movies with the perspectives of time and everything following them.

We’re going to start with a bit of a hybrid.  It’s not only a seminal movie for thirtysomething toy geeks, it’s also one of the lynchpins in the mythos of one of the greatest of action figure brands.  The year was 1986.  The occasion was my best friend’s 12th birthday.  We went to Movieland on Central Avenue in Yonkers, New York and saw… (more…)

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Norman Bates

Michael Myers

Jason Vorhees

Freddy Krueger

Alice Hudson

No…? (more…)

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Well here it is almost 3 months later and I’m getting to part 02 of my blog on ”Making your own Action Figure (Is it even possible?)”….ugh how time flies. 

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Everyone else at AFi seems to have weighed in on the DCUC Subscription, so why not me?

I was among the first to tell Mattel they were doing a lousy job with character selection in JLU.  That is why I started with the JLU Most Wanted Polls here at AFi.  With DCUC I never had that feeling.  DCUC gave us character selection from across the DC universe.  Wave 1 gave us Batman, Penguin, Red Tornado, Orion, Etrigan, Metamorpho. With that assortment, we got
2 Batman characters
1 Silver Age JLA
2 Satellite JLA
2 Morrison JLA
2 JL International
1 JL Europe
2 Outsiders
1 New God
and whatever groups Etrigan falls into.

Wave 2 gave us more JLA, more Batman characters, Superman, Aquaman characters and a Flash villain.  Wave 3 gave us more JLA, Green Lantern characters, more Batman characters, Titans characters.  Wave 4 gave us more JLA, Wonder Woman characters, JL International, Titans, and Batman Beyond.  Wave 5 gave us more JLA, Superman characters, Batman characters.  Wave 6 gave us Superman, Shazam characters, more JLA, more New Gods, more JLI. That is 6 waves of great stuff. (more…)

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Not that you asked, but here’s how I warmed up to the DCUC Subscription offering.

I’ll admit, at first I had *no* interest in the DC Universe Classics subscription. I hadn’t been buying DCUC in ages, the prices at retail were ridiculous, and most of the time I’d only be tempted by half the figures they offered anyway.

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In my last post, I told you all why I’ve subscribed to Club Infinite Earths.  Since then, I’ve seen a lot of conversation about the club here, and elsewhere, and I feel like there’s a crippling amount of cross-talk and misinformation coloring perceptions on all sides of the issue.  So, here are two letters I hope will make things plain to all concerned. (more…)

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The future. (more…)

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